Catastrophe Quote by Simon Kuper Download Open image “Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.” — Simon Kuper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catastrophe National unity Sports Unity War
Our country has been through some difficult moments recently in terms of its unity. But sport can unite. — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
“Sports leads the country to unity; politics leads the country to diversity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It's amazing how sports is a way to control the masses. But it also unites people. — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
Football has this ability to unite and create something more than just a spectacle as a sport. — Angelos Postecoglou Copy Share Image
“I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international… — George Orwell Copy Share
I think football in general globally has a unique way of uniting people instead of dividing people. — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sport's always political and here it's more complex because we're a nation without a state. — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country's prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
“The theory of the “wisdom of crowds” says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this… — Simon Kuper Copy Share
“It’s sad to say, but it is much easier selling, for example, a crap Brazilian than a brilliant Mexican. The Brazilian gets across the… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurs who dip into soccer also keep making the same mistakes. They buy clubs promising to run them “like a business” and disappear a… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
“Aulas spotted early that most soccer fans everywhere are much more like shoppers than like religious believers: if they can get a better experience… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
“you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
“Stars of Recent World Cups, or European Championships Are Overvalued The worst time to buy a player is in the summer when he’s just… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this… — Rick Snyder Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again.… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
